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The Revolutionary Workers Party ( es, Partido Obrero Revolucionario, POR) was the first
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political party
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in
Peru
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, image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg
, other_symbol = Great Seal of the State
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, national_motto = "Fi ...
. Originally known as the Marxist Workers Group, it changed its name in 1946. Early leaders included
Francisco Zevallos
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and
Francisco Abril de Vivero
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.
In 1952, Manuel A. Odría jailed or exiled the leadership of the group, which remained largely inactive until he stepped down in 1956. Two rival parties of the same were constituted. One was led by
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Félix Zevallos
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and affiliated to the
International Committee of the Fourth International
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(ICFI). It was this second group that Hugo Blanco joined in 1958, to organise activities under the co-ordination of Nahuel Moreno. In the role, he held a
peasant
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uprising in
La Convención
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in 1962, for which he was jailed and then exiled.
The ISFI and Moreno's supporters in the ICFI reunited in 1963, and it appears that the two Revolutionary Labour Parties reunited at this point, to form the Revolutionary Left Front.
It used to be a member of the Fourth International Posadist.